Gentiana linearis acid soil for a warmer climate or

for a warmer climate or if you want lots and lots of flowering

Very small needle like leaves on a low mat

tiny white and crowded at the tip with radiating eryngio like bracts

but worth it

Gentiana linearis acid soil for a warmer climate orSprawling glossy green stems topped with clusters of deep blue, bottle shaped flowers that nod gracefully in summer. Northeastern North America. A narrow leaved, species of Bottle gentian, (or possibly a hybrid, but the seedlings are all the same). It blooms in summer. The stems are 30 to 60 cm long, lax in habit, producing sprawling plants with upturned flower heads. For this reason they are ideal in amongst other similar height plants that can form